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Barry Jenkins Inks a New Television Deal With Amazon Studios
Do you think the heads of the broadcast television channels are shaking in their boots at this point over the incredible threat that streaming services have become when it comes to programming? If not, they should be. Netflix and Hulu have already shown they can create sustainable series that people want to watch, and Amazon…
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Barry Jenkins Discovers He and James Baldwin Had Similar Visions for 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Adaptation
During the course of filming If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins tried to stay loyal to the vision and flavor of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name. Jenkins filmed in Harlem, where Baldwin’s tragic love story takes place, and the film recently premiered at the Apollo Theater, not far from where Baldwin…
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Watch: Barry Jenkins' Official Trailer for If Beale Street Could Talk Does James Baldwin Proud
“Trust love, all the way.” Those are the final words of Barry Jenkins’ full-length trailer for his adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, which was released by Annapurna pictures on Thursday morning. The Oscar-winning director’s follow-up to 2016’s gorgeous Moonlight is already generating Oscar buzz of its own, well ahead of…
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Barry Jenkins on Racism: ‘If It Can Happen to Me, It Can Happen to Anyone’
Having money or status does not preclude anyone from experiencing racism, and director Barry Jenkins knows that first hand. At the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, he relayed an experience he had while promoting his film Moonlight—and said it’s important for everyone to speak out when it happens to them. Jenkins’s latest film, If…
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If Beale Street Could Talk Gets a Harlem Homecoming for Its Premiere
Though James Baldwin left Harlem when he was in his teens, the historic black neighborhood was never far from his mind. Harlem showed up throughout Baldwin’s work, from his influential personal essays to his fiction. Now, as Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins gets ready to take his adaptation of Baldwin’s novel, If Beale Street Could Talk,…
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Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Pays Homage to Baldwin on His Birthday
Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, which snagged 2017’s Best Picture Oscar, is back with If Beale Street Could Talk, based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel. On what would have been Jimmy’s 94th birthday, Jenkins paid tribute to the Harlem-bred novelist and social activist by releasing the film’s trailer on Thursday. “For me, August 2nd has…
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Barry Jenkins Visually Reimagines James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk For a Full Display of Cinematic Blackness
Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) has tackled James Baldwin’s tragic, yet beautiful tale, If Beale Street Could Talk. This is the first time any of Baldwin’s work will be adapted into film in the English language. Jenkins’ goal was to keep the integrity of Baldwin’s genius but make sure the film didn’t feel like literature.…
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‘I Denied Myself That Dream’: Barry Jenkins Finally Gives That Best Picture Acceptance Speech
More than a year after that infamous mix-up at the Oscars, on Sunday at the SXSW conference, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins finally delivered the best picture acceptance speech he would have given. “I’m going to read something that I never read out loud before,” Jenkins opened: [Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney] and I are Chiron.…
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Moonlight Director on Why New James Baldwin Film Needs to Be in Harlem
After his history-making turn directing Moonlight, Barry Jenkins has chosen to tackle the work of one of America’s great literary icons: James Baldwin. Jenkins is adapting Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk as his next feature film. As DNAinfo reports, Jenkins is choosing to stay true to the story by filming in Harlem, where…
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Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins to Write, Direct Film Version of James Baldwin Novel
Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning feature film Moonlight, has plans to bring more black excellence to the screen in the form of a screen adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk, a novel by celebrated author James Baldwin. Deadline reports that the upcoming movie was already in development in May when Jenkins inked his…
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